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name: Scott
vorname: William Edouard
wikidata-repräsentation: Q8008412
gnd-repräsentation: 121457621
biografische angaben: Born 1884 in Indianapolis, died 1964. American painter. He spent four years at the School of the Art Institute, where he received his early training in mural painting and won several awards and scholarships. After further study in Paris at the Académie Julian and the Académie Colarossi and with the noted black artist Henry Ossawa Tanner, he returned to Chicago. Searching for new ways of treating black themes, he made many trips to the South, painting rural genre scenes and over thirty portraits of prominent black men and women. During World War I he sketched black soldiers in action and illustrated several covers for Crisis, a magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois, who founded the NAACP in 1909. Scott spent 1931 as artist in residence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on a Julius Rosenwald fellowship, and he is credited with stimulating the interest of Haitian artists in painting local scenes and with initiating the establishment of the Haitian Art Center, which became the focus of an artistic explosion of folk art in the 1950s. Alwas a realistic painter, his art encompassed both easel and mural formats and historical as well as religious themes "peopled," as art historian Barry Gaither wrote, with men and women "who […] sweat, strain, laugh, talk and labor in a context of equality." His murals are primarily in Illinois and Indiana, in churches, schools, hospitals, government buildings, and banks.